# CVE-2025-9486: Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

> CVE-2025-9486: Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab. CVSS 3.3 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-9486
Last updated: 2026-09-29T10:10:00Z

- Published: 2026-08-12 19:05 UTC · Updated: 2026-09-29 10:10 UTC · Assigner: GitLab
- CVSS: 3.3 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Low · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 0.34%, 27th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-266

## Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.6 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed a user with a pending membership to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to incorrect privilege assignment that did not account for membership state.

## Affected vendors and products

- GitLab: GitLab

## Tracked companies

- [GitLab](https://rewindex.com/company/gitlab.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9486)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9486)
- [https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released/](https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released/)
- [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/565412](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/565412)
- [https://hackerone.com/reports/3262844](https://hackerone.com/reports/3262844)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-9486 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-9486.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-9486 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:46:23.724Z